Sorry about last week's missing post. Left the laptop at home while I was away.

 

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@RustyFN added to his previous post on his shop built steady rest-

 

Rusty received lots of positive comments on the finished steady

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Click on the images for more information.

 

The Art of Turning has an event scheduled.

 

 

From the AAW-

 

 

From Cindy Drozda-

 

 

 

From the Woodturners Retreat- July 23-

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

Jim Rodgers has a three part presentation on turning a bowl. Very informative-

 

This is Part 1. The other 2 parts are linked from Jim's YouTube channel-

 

 

Mike Peace continues his series on basic turning knowledge. This video is on using the wood worm screw-

 

 

 

Cracks, checks and voids are all part of turning. This video from Kent Weakley discusses some of the methods of working with these defects-

 

 

 

Woodturning Monthly from the Woodworker's Journal has a couple of great articles. Ernie Conover on making/using CA glue to help chuck a bowl to the lathe. Also, Dennis Belcher of the American Association of Woodturners explores the process of using a lathe to drill holes.

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodturning-monthly/?utm_medium=email

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Thinking about expanding your turning horizons into wood stabilization. This informative video from Craft Supplies USA may help to get you started-

 

 

If you do a lot of segmented turning, Alan Stratton has a novel way of doing glue-ups. He also shows a simple table saw jig for cutting the segments-

 

 

 

Mike Waldt turns a 5000 year old English Bog Oak Bowl. 

 

 

 

Richard Raffan did a live Q&A with the Lancaster Woodturners. This is almost 2 hours. 

 

 

From the AAW, Jerry Kermode does a natural edge bowl and show us how he handled a split-

 

 

Although this video demonstrated problems with flatwork finishing, the techniques work with turning as well. From Klingspor Abrasives-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

This past weekend was the AAW tradeshow/symposium. Vendors displayed their new products and I expect to see those starting to show on their websites. Cindy Drozda did 2 live walkabouts speaking with many vendors and gave them an opportunity to talk about their products. 

Cindy posted the 2 videos on her YouTube channel. Check out the new T-Shirt that will be available from our sponsor @Jim from Easy Wood Tools!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

 

 

Safe turning

 

Thanks for the reminder on the Raffin interview. Have seen it promoted by John Kelsey several times and keep forgetting to watch.

You made up for last week.  This is quite the array of items to peruse.  Thanks.

@Gerald Thank You!

 

@HandyDan Thanks!